3 JULY 1869, page 17

The French Bar* Tam Sketch Contains Many Points Of Interest,

but it is fragmen- tary and wants method. Too much of the book is taken up with biographical details about the advocates of the present century, and the distinctive......

Dr. Thomson, Of Coldstream.*

ADAM Thomson . was born at Coldstream in 1779, lived, laboured, and preached there for more than half a century, and died in 1861, beloved and lamented as so good a man deserved......